PANDA BEAR
With a new album coming out on November 9, the experimental indie group Animal Collective has teamed up with PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) for a separate endeavor. Known as a group of animal loving musicians (as if the name wasn’t enough), the partnership has been organized as a protest to the upcoming Canadian seal-hunting season, which begins six days after their new album is released.
The campaign, which features an ad with the band wearing white shirts adorned with an adorable seal illustration and a short, online video, is a blatant comment on the overly cruel practice of using spiked clubs to bludgeon and remove seals from their natural habitat. The video, which lasts nearly a minute and a half, explains the reasoning for the groups involvement in the campaign and explores band member Geologist’s (a.k.a. Brian Weitz) collegiate experiences studying biology and environmental policy. “We really like animals and seals, especially,” he says.
Fourteen years ago, when the site was little more than Ryan Schreiber’s upstart in the Twin Cities, few if any, imagined online publication Pitchfork to turn into the international music media colossus that it’s become today. So influential have they proven themselves that the site is said to be all but directly responsible for a band's rise to fame, or their fall into obscurity.
Contrary to popular belief, they work out of offices in Chicago, not a secret chamber in some secluded temple of The Vatican, simultaneously eager and dreadful for the moment Dan Brown puts pen to paper about them. As such, they’re not above doing best-of lists, so below are their top twenty albums of the 2000s…
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